Fishy! Now I have an earworm far worse than ‘Blow the Wind Southerly’.
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Sorry! Anthems are supposed to be that way, though.
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It is the Anti Anarcho-Syndicalist Anthem.
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Providing a baseline (or maybe also a bassline) I made cheese and lentil loaf with soured cream (cos’ I had it) and paired it with roasted cheapo Aldi veg and additions. It was good, for us.
Good nights, Cellarites,
Soo xx
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Gin, Darling
The Fritatta was a sort of 'fridge bottom concoction wiv leftovers , & bargain veg, & it was good
Bargain broccoli tomorrow. I might have salmon wivvit
Carinthia.xx
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Morning all
Ulster fries are being made
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Maybe it’s time I went to bed…
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Breakfast television was never worth staying up for.
yardarm
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Thank goodness for that.
[gluggity]
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Here too.
[gluggity][gluggity][gluggity]
One [gluggity] was nowhere near enough. I am enmired in converting that chart as you suggested and, whilst I am sure it will be worth it, my eyes are getting more crossed by the second.
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Judging by the garment you’ve shown us, yes it bloomin’well will! That knitting is beautifully done, you know.
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Aw, thanks. The trouble with me is I’m such a perfectionist (when it comes to what I do, I don’t apply the same standards to anyone else) that I’m never quite satisfied, so it helps to ‘hear’ that.
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One of the things about perfectionists is that by their own standards they fail (they set themselves up to do so) but by everyone else’s they do pretty damn’ well. Hey, I wrote an MA thesis which says pretty-much that! Gawain knows he failed, but the entire court of King Arthur thinks he succeeded, and they all decide to wear green girdles to glory in his success – which he knows was a failure, poor man.
A translation (I won’t inflict the original) reads
“The King comforts the knight, and all the court also,
laughing loudly thereat, and lovingly agreeing,
those lords and ladies that belonged to the Table,
that each born to the brotherhood, a baldric should have,
a belt, oblique him about, of a bright green,
and that for the sake of the knight, the same hue.
For it was accorded to the renown of the Round Table,”
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I’m sure you can guess what I was thinking as I read that - that much as I’d love to compare myself to Gawain… etc etc.
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Same set-up, even so. He wanted to be perfect and failed to be so (mostly because the silly man made two incompatible promises and then had to break one of them) but managed in spite of this to do pretty damn’ well as far as everyone else was concerned – including the person he broke his word to!
You wanted to knit the perfect cardigan, and you know the places where you made a mistake and the places where you got the weaving in of the ends just a bit wrong and so on. Everyone else thinks it’s pretty damn’ good, though.
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Gus reporting for tone-lowering duty, yer Fishness.
Sounds like a threat to me. “Take 'im out back and oblique 'im abaht a bit. Only language they unnerstand, innit”.
With apologies to the Gawain poet and the translator.
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And people say the comma is obsolete!
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Nah, can’t be doin’ wivvem. Basically yer comma 's just a flightless apostrophe.
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Meanwhile and at a tangent, why is it that in American fanfic people never simply kiss each other, they always “lean in for a kiss”? Can they not osculate except at a slant?
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Because it is important, in a puritan country, to make it clear that a kiss is ‘just’ a kiss, so lower body parts must remain as far apart as possible?
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